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North Staffordshire, retired, Ex-Labour. Politically homeless at the moment.
Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Ukrainian local media report that Kharkiv’s CHP-5 power plant was just struck, reportedly by several Banderol mini cruise missiles. Further details are not yet available but this is how the 'energy truce' looks like. #Ukraine
⏰️ 50 people to go, we're down to a whisker.... Need more reasons to sign? Standing up to earned settlement means standing up for our NHS workers and care staff 🌈🌈🌈 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says
Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans
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Zelensky says Trump’s announcement of an energy ceasefire was unexpected and the first he had heard of any agreement. “If Trump agreed on this with Putin, tell us when the ceasefire takes effect. Ukraine is ready to accept it,” he said, after Trump claimed both sides had already agreed. #Ukraine
Latest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:
With Reform launching their own newspaper, sending it to millions, you can return it to them: Reform UK Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC 83 Victoria Street London SW1H OHW or Freepost Plus RUHS-YGAJ-TKBL Reform UK Millbank Tower 21-24 Millbank London SW1P 4QP Every item they receive they have to pay for!
Ukraine? Has there ever been a less self-aware fuckwit in the history of the universe? bsky.app/profile/news...
Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterdayTrump: 'It's time for Ukraine to get a new president'
"James Sawkins is a Reform councillor in Waltham, here posing with Richard Tice. Queue Tice saying he has never met him. Why? ... [Sawkins is accused of] "supplying an unauthorised medical product and possession of Class A drugs" www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Lower the Flags
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4d agoVisa applications to study in the UK fell by 10.3 per cent for the key recruitment month of September, new Home Office figures show. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #visas #internationalstudents #edusky https://ow.ly/3LSs50ZVPAE
Google, who was the piano accompanist in a 1973 Franco Corelli/Renata Tebaldi duets recital in London's Royal Albert Hall? Gemini: "No such concert ever took place. It is a common misattribution in collectors' circles." Gemini's source for this? An ebay listing of *the actual concert programme*. 😂
It's worth writing "unsolicited post, please return to sender" on the wrapper and putting it back in the post. That way it will double the cost to Reform.
Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social · 2d agoReform UK are trying to buy the next election, by flooding Britain with hate, fear & lies ... meme via Joshua ABD
🚨Under the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act 2022, Russian diesel CANNOT be imported into the U.S. unless the President certifies to Congress that Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine, acknowledged Ukraine's sovereignty & no longer poses a threat to NATO.🚨 (Credit: @jayinkyiv.bsky.social)
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. As of now, sadly, twelve people have been confirmed ki!|ed, including three children.
Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister bylinetimes.com/2026/10/09/r...
Reform UK’s James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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You can’t be ‘cruel’ to AI. Stop anthropomorphising again…
HUGE NEWS: A group of top civil rights & free speech lawyers are calling for the $345 MILLION verdict against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US to be overturned. Here’s what really happened and why EVERY activist is at risk 🧵
Three years on, Israel continues to asphyxiate #Gaza. With Israeli forces now occupying approximately 65 per cent of Gaza, the ‘Yellow Line’ is further restricting where Palestinians can live, putting people at risk of being shot and disrupting aid. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-th...
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - Trump is a bitter, petty man… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live
The ICC’s deputy prosecutor condemned the sanctions and said they would not halt the tribunal’s work
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Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...
I'm sure such a high profile search like this the police would've dotted every I and crossed every T So now Andrew Mountbatton's arrest is classed as 'wrongful ' He's got off again !!! The powers that be have intervened,,, 'In my opinion ' 😉
There are perverse incentives, and then there's just basic economic illiteracy
Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 4d agoToday, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT. The estate is the same size. Under the Tory proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT. Your house move caused £240,000 IHT.
The barrister who cleared Jukes and Orr is Reform’s own barrister, Adam Richardson. Investigations, internal or otherwise, are more credible if the lawyer isn’t the company’s own lawyer! For anyone interested in Richardson, a failed UKIP candidate, read this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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